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White Paper According to the Second Annual Business Software Alliance (BSA) and IDC Global Software Piracy Study, thirty-five percent of the software installed on personal computers worldwide was pirated, representing a loss of nearly $33 billion in 2004. [19 Apr 2006]
BSA 2005 Global Software Piracy Study
White Paper In 2004, 35 percent of the software installed on personal computers worldwide was pirated, a one percentage point decrease from 36 percent in 2003. Yet, losses due to piracy increased from $29 billion to $33 billion. [18 Nov 2005]
Buyer Beware: 10 Tips for Safe Shopping
White Paper Tips to help consumers and businesses when purchasing software online. [18 Nov 2005]
Software Piracy and the Law
White Paper Software piracy is a high-stakes gamble. Can a business really suffer legal and ethical consequences if it’s caught with pirated software? This is what the U.S.law has to say. [18 Nov 2005]
Call to scrap levies on European music downloads
News European consumers are being forced to pay usage rights on legal copy-protected music downloads multiple times because of outdated private copy levies, according to anti-piracy group the Business Software Alliance (BSA). [13 Oct 2005]
Software piracy jumps to $185m as industry fights back
News Najeeb Khan, spokesperson for the BSA and anti piracy manager for software maker Adobe Systems, said: "If the UK achieved a 10 per cent reduction in software piracy, an additional £10bn could be raised towards UK GDP while 40,000 jobs could... [05 Oct 2005]
China's long road to copyright
Comment The Business Software Alliance (BSA) estimates that in 2004, software piracy in China cost its members $3.5bn in lost revenue - the second-highest rate of dollar losses in the world, after the US' $6.6bn in piracy-related losses. [19 Sep 2005]
Remote workers give bosses IT security headache
News The NOP research was sponsored by the software industry anti-piracy body the Business Software Alliance (BSA), which claims the results highlight a dangerous attitude by UK managers through a failure to enforce IT management polices on staff who... [05 Jul 2005]
Nicking software 'worse than fiddling expenses', say staff
News The Business Software Alliance (BSA) was recently criticised for hyping the issue of unlicensed software after the organisation called for more government legislation to protect its members, which include Apple and Microsoft. [27 Jun 2005]
Microsoft to turn cracked Windows legal for $1?
News Indonesia, the fifth worst country for software piracy according to the BSA, could be let off lightly. Microsoft is in discussion with the Indonesian government on how to tackle the rampant use of cracked Windows. [10 Jun 2005]
BSA slams lack of action over piracy
News The Business Software Alliance (BSA) urged the UK government on Wednesday to take tougher action against copyright violation to combat the spiralling rate of unlicensed software. Siobhan Carroll, a BSA regional manager, said in a statement: "The... [19 May 2005]
DrinkOrDie pirates go to jail
News The BSA investigator, who spoke to silicon.com on the guarantee of anonymity, said: "Not only does this case show that people will get caught it shows it is almost impossible to hide. A City banker at the heart of the DrinkOrDie software piracy... [06 May 2005]
Apple legal row backed by Intel
News Intel and BSA stated in their joint brief: "Strong trade secret laws are vital to the health of California's high-technology business and to the economy of the nation as a whole. Apple declined to comment on the BSA, Genentech and Intel briefs, and... [29 Apr 2005]
Pirate software users pay up €4m
News The Business Software Alliance (BSA) filed the €4m-worth of enforcement actions, with 1,372 raids authorised by the courts on the fake software users and 1,203 additional legal actions instigated by the BSA. [07 Mar 2005]
Melting the Organizational Boundaries in Border Security: An Initiative for the 1990s
White Paper Drawing upon the lessons learned from the case of Sheikh Omar Abdurrahrnan (the "Blind Sheikh of World Trade Center fame), the paper develops a proposal for "reinventing" U.S.border security by establishing a Border Security Agency (BSA). [27 Dec 2004]
